LABELEXPO EUROPE, with seven pavilions, more than 550 exhibitors and visitors expected from one hundred countries, is the world’s most important fair dedicated to label printing and packaging.

The entire Mosaico label printing range will be exhibited for the first time at LABELEXPO at the Mosaico stand, Hall 12, stand T74, an “open” space to discover the multiple possible applications for one-side coated papers and the new catalogues for the self-adhesive range. A maxi video wall, also “tells the story” of Specialty Papers by Mosaico for the label sector.

A colourful and happy dotted fish, freely inspired by the works of Japanese artist Yayoi-Kusama, will deck the stand and help to highlight the characteristics of the Mosaic papers specific for the labelling sector, accompanying the visitors among the Mosaico products and solutions.

At a time when the European market is experiencing positive growth (In Europe, 17 square meters of labels per person are used, a figure which is higher than any other market) above all in Eastern Europe, where it reaches 20% per year, LABELEXPO EUROPE 2013 is the perfect window to present the Mosaic range of one-side coated papers specifically designed for self-adhesives: one-side coated gloss and matt face papers also for specific uses like wine, spirits, retail, greaseproof for oil and vinegar and Clay Coated Kraft for silicone coating.

The dynamic Mosaico Business Unit, entirely dedicated to specialty papers and to more innovative solutions, offers not only products, but above all solutions, even those which customers have not thought of yet… to guarantee ever greater performance and cost reductions. In one word: competitiveness.

MACRO in Rome is dedicating a solo exhibition – from April 23 to September 15, 2013 – to Hidetoshi Nagasawa, appreciated as one of the protagonists of international contemporary sculpture.

Ombra verde (Green Shadow) is the name of the exhibition which aims at celebrating the long career of the Japanese artist. Nagasawa was born in Manchuria and moved to Italy in 1967 in a very adventurous way. In fact, Nagasawa left Japan when he was 26 years old and just married, with just 500 dollars and a bicycle! As a backward Marco Polo, he heroically travelled cycling for a year and a half through Asia up to his landing in Italy in Milan in 1967. There his bicycle was stolen and this was taken as a sign of destiny, thus starting his artistic growth which took him to this exhibition.

But what links Nagasawa to Burgo? a lot of paper of course and a workshop sponsored by Burgo and led by Nagasawa in 2003 for a group of students of Turin’s Politecnico, from the Faculty of Architecture. Burgo’s paper was explored unconventionally giving origin to uncommon objects, chairs, dresses, animals, specially a paper cat who attracted Bono from U2 at Burgo’s stand at the 2003 Book Fair, where the workshop’s works were exposed.